Kojima became famous with his first game, Metal Gear, which released in August 1987, on MSX2 (an open format early home computer standardized by ASCII and Microsoft). A NES version (which Kojima openly criticized many times for some changes he never intended) would only appear in Japan some months later (and almost an year later everywhere else for that platform) but Kojima was not involved with the ports as he was already working on Snatcher.

And if you think that later or not it was NES who brough him fame, well, think again... NES was so irrelevant for Metal Gear that Metal Gear 2 was exclusive to MSX2 (and japan only, remained like that 'till 2004, when it released as a mobile game).

MSX2 may look like some obscure console for someone in North America, but as hot as 8-bit consoles were back in the day, early home computers like that were just as relevent in Japan (and many other areas in Asia, Europe, South America and Middle East), so it was that version that got the japanese gaming media all jumpy over the game.

You're not the first person I see believing Kojima started on NES, it just happens that NES version of Metal Gear was the first Americans could have heard of Kojima, but fact is Metal Gear was never successful on NES... In fact, many if not most western people only learn of Kojima and Metal Gear franchise with the release of Metal Gear Solid on PS1, by 1998 (11 years after his breakthrough).

It would only be by 2000 that Kojima would, by the first time, work on a game for a Nintendo platform, Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, for Game Boy Color... Which is actually funny, because when he started on Konami, in the early 80's, and was assigned to MSX division, he complained he wanted to work with NES because of the better color pallete (yup, Kojima had been that guy who complains about wanting better hardware from day one, even when we was an inexperienced programmer who gets picked by everyone else).

So we can discuss if the platform that gave Kojima his fame was MSX2 (as MG made him famous, but mostly over Japan) or PS1 (MGS brought in the western audiance), but sure it was not NES... Despite even Kojima himself desiring for it early on his career! LOL

It's so identifiable; most people couldn't call out a system association with the Metal Gear series until PlayStation thanks to Metal Gear Solid. Now you ask most gamers and they automatically think of PlayStation.

*PLEASE BE EXCITED* That's their last words at Sony Conference ಠ_ಠ And then its turns out to be something nobody expects .. The exclusivity abruption announcement with KH3 was literally a stab in the back :(

I think he was talking about what MS is doing with dome games, making tv shows tied to the games so the gamers dictate the outcome if the episode. Maybe he wants Sony to do that so he can comeback to be exclusive.

As a MGS fanboy I think that the more people that get to play it, the better. Every gamer should be able to experience masterpieces like MGS. Be a fan of gaming, not systems or multi-billion $ companies.